The Horn Book Guide

EASY READERS

Ghigna, Charles

Mice Are Nice

32 pp. | Random | June, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-679-88929-9 $$3.99 | Library ISBN 0-679-98929-3 $$11.99

(4) K-3 Step into Reading series. Illustrated by Jon Goodell. A mouse tries to convince a pet store customer that mice make the best pets: "Boas squeeze. / Lizards shed. / Rabbits hide / beneath the bed." The illustrations are greeting-card sweet but contain humorous details--the jaunty narrator plugs his nose near a litter box--and the large typeface and short, rhyming sentences make the light story appropriate for beginning readers.

Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger